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Assit principio Sancta Maria meo
This is the first line in the cartulary of the Hospital and Priory which now resides in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and which is a suitable place to start. Sometime about 1171, two years after the invasion of Ireland by Henry II the city was captured by King Dermot MacMurrough of Leinster, with the aid of Anglo-Norman mercenaries. In the next few years, not later than 1180, Ailred the Dane returned from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land bearing palms and was afterwards known as Ailred the almer, as was customary at the time.

We know when Ailread died (c. 1202)but not his age, though it is reasonable to assume that he was 22 years in service and probably a man in his 20's in 1180 - making at least 42 years at death, and most likely older.

Priors of the Hospital prior to it's supression in 1539)
Ailread Palmer, Founder and 1st Prior before 1188; d. c. 1202 Osbert (de Colesell) 1217, 1220. Daniel 1220 to c. 1247. Walter (de Southwell) 1251 to 1267 Jordan, 1269 to 1274. Bartholomew, 1278/9 to 1290. John Scot, 1297 - 1311. John le Palmer, 1317 to 1324. William Gerard, elected after the death of John le Palmer and resigned 1331. Thomas de Landa, 1331 to 1340. William Gerard, 1341 to 1363. John. 1380. Henry Randolph, 1381, 1386. Richard, 1395. Henry Randolph 1381, 1385, 1386